For the past couple of months we’ve been working on an exhibit of photographs and literary extracts inspired by places in East Ayrshire. We’ve been involved in Scottish Book Trust’s My Favourite Place project, running some writing workshops, and generally rummaging in our collection of Ayrshire poetry books. There is a post on the Scottish Book Trust blog that explains our activities in some detail.

Here are some of the places featured in our exhibit.

To accompany a poem by Robert Hettrick of Dalmellington, ‘Craigs of Ness’ (1826)

A view of Muirkirk, to accompany the poem by John Lapraik ‘Lines Put Upon a Post Leading to the Tar-Work at Muirkirk, 1786′ (1788)

And below, a picture of Kilmarnock’s High Street, to accompany an extract from William McIlvanney’s Docherty (1975)